Yellow jackets — properly known as Vespula, Dolichovespula, or Paravespula — are thin wasps with black and yellow coloring and long dark wings. Here you can learn how to treat their stings and ...

What kind of wasps are in the Lowcountry and how can you avoid stings? Here's what to know about these pesky summer insects.

The 2-year-old Georgia boy was critically injured after being stung more than 150 times by yellowjackets while riding a toy ...

When a yellow jacket stings, its barb-like stinger pierces the skin and injects you with venom consisting of toxins called mastoparan and phospholipase A1 and A2. Unlike bees, yellow jackets can ...

Little Beckham Reed — who was born with just one kidney — was swarmed by the wasps when he bumped into a nest while riding in ...

A 2-year-old boy from Georgia was left on life support and is fighting for his life after he was stung over 150 times by ...

According to an online fundraiser, the toddler was on his electric toy vehicle when he hit a yellow jacket nest and was ...

Yellow jackets are generally more aggressive than bees, and they are able to sting people multiple times. When the insects sense danger, they release pheromones that signal other yellow jackets to ...

Though less immediately painful than yellow jacket stings, an increase in mosquito bites could prove dangerous. In 2023 reporting from the Citizen Times, one Western Carolina University professor ...